- fireman's hose
- nBritishthe nose. A piece of authentic rhyming slang, still heard occasionally in Lon-don.► 'He had to stick his fireman's hose into it, didn't he?' (Recorded, hairdresser, Richmond, 1988)
Contemporary slang . 2014.
fireman's hose
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